24th September 2005, 11:02 AM
Hey lazy, does the analog stick part have a motion sensor though? I'm pretty sure it wouldn't matter where you held the analog stick part, as the machine would not be able to detect it.
Still, the idea of TWO motion sensors is even better than one, for reasons like you described.
As for this argument, all you two are showing each other is you have two different definitions for what constitutes innovation. Weltall sees it from a more technical standpoint, and lazy sees it more from the view of what effect it has in the industry. By the latter, it's hard to call any invention that fails an innovation because it failed. By the former, every invention that is original enough in it's functionality is an innovation, even if it never even makes it off the drawing board.
Neither one is wrong. I tend to go with the former myself simply because I'm a technically minded person, but the latter is just as valid and appropriate a definition.
The d-pad and two analog sticks, functionally, didn't create much of anything new except to expand on an existing idea. However, they changed industry standards. It all depends on what you consider more important.
Still, the idea of TWO motion sensors is even better than one, for reasons like you described.
As for this argument, all you two are showing each other is you have two different definitions for what constitutes innovation. Weltall sees it from a more technical standpoint, and lazy sees it more from the view of what effect it has in the industry. By the latter, it's hard to call any invention that fails an innovation because it failed. By the former, every invention that is original enough in it's functionality is an innovation, even if it never even makes it off the drawing board.
Neither one is wrong. I tend to go with the former myself simply because I'm a technically minded person, but the latter is just as valid and appropriate a definition.
The d-pad and two analog sticks, functionally, didn't create much of anything new except to expand on an existing idea. However, they changed industry standards. It all depends on what you consider more important.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)